We finally got our hands on one of the original guitar-making woods, Dalbergia Nigra! Comment below what wood you’d love to see next!
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00:00 – Intro
00:21 – Technical Details
01:10 – Backstory and Examples
05:17 – What Does it Sound Like?
06:24 – Magic Spray!
07:42 – Outro
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That new microphone for the “tapping” is terrific!
You are the GOAT. Just sayin.
⭐Aurora borealis⭐ infused Brazilian. Tony must be over the moon.🌙
Do you like the new setup? We had so much fun with this one!
5:09 Oh no.. it looks like FBI sniper locking on the target….
It just gets better every time. Thanks again, Tommy.
Oh Yeah 🤟
I love the new microphone. With a good set of earphones, this really works! Wow, this wood is so incredible, I never get tired of seeing it and hearing it. I have several guitars with Brazilian and fall in love each time I play them! I just have to say that cutting the trees and leaving the stumps shows such an awful characteristic of human self indulgence. We did the same stupid trick with African Ebony. CITES is quite a pain, but so very important.
Thanks, John
Gig Harbor, WA
Of course Tony would have good taste being the original acoustic guitar geek😂 So the best way I can describe Brazilian as a tone wood is that for my ear the notes seem to pop off if that makes sense? I already knew this but one of my favourite artists Steve Earle whose channel has him showing off his collection of vintage Martins and Gibson’s. He often points out that the stuff used back then was the straight grain Brazilian that was not picked out for its beauty.
I’m still very much a learner of three years but it was seeing the content of Michael Watts a devotee of twelve fret guitars and the many beautiful examples you’ve made that saw me buy a second hand Brook Taw twelve fret guitar a year ago. Wondered if I’d made the right choice at first as I initially struggled but I now love it to bits and it sounds just as good with a capo so thanks for the inspiration Tom.
Yes, new mike and setup helps make the tap tone clearer on headphones Brazilian what's not to like. There are way more pressing environmental and forestry issues around the world than people using wood felled or reclaimed many years ago. Good show
Tom what other tonewoods do you think are tonally similar to brasilian rosewood? Can u name some similar species
Uh….I think I like the look of Indian better…..
I am sorry to say this, but this is mostly superstition/ beliefs more than science or history related (when checking density, stiffness etc as the same spieces have a huge variability inside of it)
Rosewood was introduced as a decorative wood for laminating pianos and other pieces of luxury funiture(same way as ebony was used too), then it moved to guitars too (many were just laminating maple or other white/boring lookin woods)
I have collected and restored antique guitars(classical/romantic) for a long time, mostly spanish guitars from before the 1910, most of them had Brazilian rosewood B/S.
Back then there was no difference between Indian and Brazilian and other CSAs, Builders used what they had, and Indian was prime quality too. Actually some guitar had mixed sets (matched by eye on colour, but you could tell they were diferent by the small when refinishing or fixing cracks). As an example Fleta used to build from his rosewoods stacks, no difference on IRW or BRW, it was all RW.
What we are left now with are crappy stumps, re-sawn for performance (flat cuts), unstable with a lot of mineral deposits, nothing to do with quarter sawn brazilian like on old classical/acoustic guitars, people pay 2k for a set with paper work, absolute madness, it also feeds an industry in Brazil of people who goes to the jungle to cut down trees and sell the wood ilegally (you can hear of people selling illegal BRW sets for 3000 Reais…)
if you are interested i have a lot brazilian pernambuco but im located in the philippines
I have never even seen BR for sale in Canada, except in finished guitars. Always wanted a set to build a guitar for myself. (Not for sale) LOL. There are Canadian luthiers that have some somehow, but haven’t ever found one willing to part with a set.
Sounded like an old piece of cardboard….lol ….I have three different species of hardwood that are not nearly as endangered and sound much better than the representative pieces you showed here…I am intentionally NOT SAYING what they are…two are quite oily…one is a conifer.